Current PhD Students

Min Feng

Dennis Jeffrey

Vijayanand Nagarajan

Chen Tian

PhDs Graduated

• Sriraman Tallam, Google
  
  • Dissertation: Fault Location and Avoidance in Long-Running Multithreaded Applications
    (October 2007).
    
  
  
• Xiangyu Zhang, Purdue University, Dept. of Computer Science
  
  • Dissertation: Fault Location Via Precise Dynamic Slicing (September 2006).
    Recipient of the SIGPLAN Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award, 2006.
    
  
  
• Bengu Li, Synopsys, Portland
  
  • Dissertation: Efficient Handling of Narrow Width and Streaming Data in Embedded Applications
    (May 2006).
    
  
  
• Arvind Krishnaswamy, HP, Cupertino
  
  • Dissertation: Microarchitecture and Compiler Techniques for Dual Width ISA Processors
    (May 2006).
    
  
  
• Jun Yang, University of Pittsburgh, Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering
  
  • Dissertation: Frequent Value Locality and its Application of Low Power Memory Design
    (September 2002).
    NSF CAREER Award, 2008.
    
  
  
• Youtao Zhang, University of Pittsbugh, Dept. of Computer Science
  
  • Dissertation: The Design and Implementation of Compression Techniques for Profile Guided
    Compilation (August 2002).
    NSF CAREER Award, 2005.
    
  
  
• Clara Jaramillo, Chatam College, Dept. of Computer Science
  
  • Dissertation: Source Level Debugging Techniques and Tools for Optimized Code,
    (August 2000).

• Rastislav Bodik, University of California, Berkeley, Dept. of Computer Science
  
  • Dissertation: Path and Value Sensitive Code Optimizations (November 1999).
    Recipient of the SIGPLAN Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award, 2001.
    NSF CAREER Award, 2001.

• Soner Onder, Michigan Technological University, Dept. of Computer Science
  
  • Dissertation: Scalable Superscalar Processing (July 1999).
    NSF CAREER Award, 2004.

• Xin Yuan, Florida State University, Dept. of Computer Science
  
  • Dissertation: Dynamic and Compiled Communication in Optical Time-Division-Multiplexed
    Point-to-Point Networks (August 1998).

• Jodi Tims, Baldwin Wallace College, Dept. of Computer Science, Berea, Ohio
  
  • Dissertation: Integrating Automatic Data Distribution and Communication Optimization
    (July 1998).

• Wanqing Wu, Oracle Corporation, California
  
  • Dissertation: On-line Avoidance of the Intrusive Effects of Monitoring of Distributed
    Applications (July 1998).

• Tia Watts, Sonoma State University, Computer Science Department
  
  • Dissertation: MIST: An Approach to Integrating Restructuring Transformations and Multiple
    Scheduling Techniques (December 1997).

• David Berson, Synopsys, Portland
  
  • Dissertation: Unification of Register Allocation and Instruction Scheduling in Compilers for
    Fine-Grain Parallel Architectures (November 1996).

• Evelyn Duesterwald, IBM Research, Yorktown
  
  • Dissertation: A Demand Driven Approach for Efficient Interprocedural Data Flow Analysis
    (July 1996).

• Chun Gong, Microsoft Corporation, Redmond
  
  • Dissertation: Fault Tolerant Computing on Distributed-Memory Systems: A Compiler
    Assisted Approach (September 1995).